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The different types of knee pain Treatments are exercise, hyaluronic acid and corticosteroid injections. In some cases, arthroscopy, knee surgery and total knee replacement are also recommended. Exercise is one of the best things you can do to help your knees by strengthening the muscles that support them. Proper exercise also may reduce the risk of knee injury and it will make recovery easier. When oral medications do not relieve knee pain, and knee surgery is not an option, one of the following injections may help. Hyaluronic Acid are injections that are given weekly for three or five weeks, depending on the product. A small amount of joint fluid is removed first to make room for the hyaluronic acid. Corticosteroid Injection is directly injected into the knee joint for quick relief from pain. The benefits may last anywhere from a few days to more than six months. When there is no relief then knee surgery is the only option which includes, total joint replacement, which is the most common knee surgery is, a procedure in which the damaged knee joint is removed and replaced with prosthesis of metal, ceramic and/or plastic components. Arthroscopy is a small knee surgery performed by inserting a lighted scope and narrow instruments through small incisions in the skin over the knee. If the damage to your knee is mostly limited to one part, your doctor may suggest a surgery called osteotomy. In an osteotomy, the surgeon reshapes the bones and repositions them to take the weight off the damaged part of the knee.